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| Permanent heads of the departments of the Parliament
Permanent heads of the departments of the Parliament
| The Department
of the Senate |
| Clerk of the Senate |
Period of service |
| Blackmore, Edwin Gordon,
CMG |
1.4.1901 –
30.6.1908 |
| Boydell, Charles Broughton |
1.7.1908 – 31.12.1916 |
| Duffy, Charles Gavan, CMG,
LLB |
1.2.1917 –
27.8.1920 |
| Monahan, George Henry, CMG |
28.8.1920 – 31.12.1938 |
| Broinowski, Robert Arthur |
1.1.1939 –
30.11.1942 |
| Edwards, John Ernest |
1.12.1942 – 20.7.1955 |
| Loof, Rupert Harry Colin,
CBE, BComm |
21.7.1955 –
14.8.1965 |
| Odgers, James Rowland, CBE |
16.8.1965 – 8.8.1979 |
| Bullock, Roy Edwards, OBE |
9.8.1979 –
15.7.1981 |
| Bradshaw, Keith Oscar |
29.10.1980 – 15.7.1982 |
| Cumming Thom, Alan Ritchie,
BA, LLB |
16.7.1982 –
15.2.1988 |
| Evans, Harry, BA, DipLib |
17.2.1988 – |
| The Department
of the House of Representatives |
| Clerk of the House of Representatives |
Period of service |
| Jenkins, Sir George Henry,
CMG (later Sir George) |
1.5.1901 –
6.7.1901 (Acting) |
| Duffy, Charles Gavan, CMG, LLB |
8.7.1901 – 31.1.1917 |
| Gale, Walter Augustus, CMG |
1.2.1917 –
27.7.1927 |
| McGregor, John Robert |
1.9.1927 – 28.9.1927 |
| Parkes, Ernest William, CMG |
27.10.1927 –
22.3.1937 |
| Green, Frank Clifton, MC (later CBE) |
23.3.1937 – 25.6.1955 |
| Tregear, Albert Allan, BComm,
AASA (later CBE) |
27.6.1955 –
31.12.1958 |
| Turner, Alan George, CBE (later Sir Alan) |
1.1.1959 – 10.12.1971 |
| Parkes, Norman James, CBE,
AASA |
11.12.1971 –
31.12.1976 |
| Pettifer, John Athol, CBE, BComm, AASA |
1.1.1977 – 15.7.1982 |
| Blake, Douglas Maurice, VRD
(later AM) |
16.7.1982 –
30.7.1985 |
| Browning, Alan Robert |
31.7.1985 – 22.3.1991 |
| Barlin, Lyndal McAlpin, AM |
23.3.1991 –
26.7.1997 |
| Harris, Ian Charles, BA(Hons), MA, DipEd |
27.7.1997 – |
| The Department
of Parliamentary Services* |
| Secretary |
Period of service |
| Penfold, Hilary, QC, BA, LLB (Hons), PSM |
1.2.2004 - |
| The Joint House
Department |
| Secretary |
Period of service |
| Upward, George Edward* |
26.6.1901 –
30.6.1908 |
| Monahan, George Henry |
1.7.1908 – 27.8.1920 |
| URen, Fred |
28.8.1920 –
29.12.1930 |
| Broinowski, Robert Arthur |
30.12.1930 – 31.12.1938 |
| Edwards, John Ernest |
1.1.1939 –
30.11.1942 |
| Tregear, Albert Allan, BComm, CBE§ |
1.12.1942 – 1.8.1945 |
| Loof, Rupert Harry Colin,
BComm, CBE |
2.8.1945 –
9.12.1954 |
| Emerton, Walter Ian, ISO |
9.12.1954 – 20.5.1966 |
| Turner, Alan George, CBEll |
21.5.1966 –
12.9.1968 |
| Hillyer, Richard William, ACA |
13.9.1968 – 2.2.1979 |
| Donnelly, Edward Joseph |
14.2.1979 –
26.3.1980 |
| Burrell, Ronald Lewis |
27.3.1980 – 30.7.1980
(Acting) |
| Jorgensen, James Murray |
17.7.1980 –
11.9.1986 |
| Foley, James William |
27.2.1986 – 21.9.1986
(Acting) |
| Bolton, Michael William,
BA |
12.9.1986 –
31.1.2004 |
| The Department
of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff |
| Secretary (Principal Parliamentary
Reporter) |
Period of service |
| Friend, Benjamin Harry, ISO |
1.4.1901 –
10.7.1923 |
| Robinson, Charles Herbert Palmer |
11.7.1923 – 12.9.1933 |
| Weatherston, Joseph Stewart |
13.9.1933 –
30.11.1940 |
| Romans, George Henry |
1.12.1940 – 30.11.1946 |
| Adams, Arthur Percy |
1.12.1946 –
9.4.1948 |
| Campbell, William John McIntyre |
10.4.1948 – 12.4.1957 |
| ODonnell, Leo David |
13.4.1957 –
2.4.1963 |
| Dale, William Edmund |
3.4.1963 – 5.2.1964 |
| Healy, Aloysius Kelly |
6.2.1964 –
17.6.1968 |
| Bridgman, William John, OBE |
18.6.1968 – 12.8.1976 |
| Ingram, Kenneth Ross |
13.8.1976 –
10.11.1976 (Acting), 11.11.1976 – 18.12.1978 |
| Kerr, John Fairbanks |
19.12.1978 – 20.2.1981 |
| Roberts, James William |
21.2.1981 –
1.1.1985 |
| Campbell, John Martin |
2.1.1985 – 14.3.1990 |
| Templeton, John William,
BA, MSc (Econ) |
15.3.1990 –
5.12.2003 |
| Bolton, Michael William,
BA |
6.12.2003 - 31.1.2004
(Acting) |
| The Department
of the Parliamentary Library |
| Secretary (Parliamentary
Librarian) |
Period of service |
| Wadsworth, Arthur |
1.7.1901 –
31.12.1927 |
| Binns, Kenneth |
1.1.1928 – 27.11.1947 |
| White, Harold Leslie (later
Sir Harold), CBE, MA, FLAA FAHA, FASSA |
28.11.1947 –
31.12.1967 |
| Fleming, Allan Percy, CBE, OBE, MID, BA |
1.1.1968 – 1.6.1970 |
| Moore, Andrew Leslie, OBE,
MA, BEd |
2.6.1970 –
12.7.1978 |
| Weir, Harold Gibson, BA, LTh, AASA, MAPsS,
MBPsS, JP |
13.7.1978 – 17.8.1978
(Acting), 18.8.1978 – 9.9.1981 |
| MacLean, Hillas de Sailley
Cecil, BA, MLS, FNZLA |
9.7.1981 –
8.12.1982 (Acting), 9.12.1982 – 31.1.1992 |
| Templeton, John William, BA, MSc (Econ) |
16.9.1991 - 5.12.2003 (Acting) |
| Bolton, Michael William, BA |
6.12.2003 - 31.1.2004 (Acting) |
* Usher of the Black Rod and Clerk of Committees. |
| Usher of the Black
Rod and Clerk of Committees to 30.6.1915. Clerk-Assistant of the Senate
from 1.7.1915. |
| Clerk-Assistant of
the Senate. |
| § Clerk-Assistant of
the House of Representatives. |
| ll Clerk of the House of Representatives. |
| *The Department of
Parliamentary Services was established with effect from 1.2.2004,
replacing the former Joint House Department, Department of the Parliamentary
Library and Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff. |
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